Font Handling on the PostScript Level
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In this article, the a2ac program written by the author is described. The program enables the use of PostScript fonts while typesetting texts in which accented letters are used. The font doesn’t need to contain the complete alphabet of a given language; merely the presence of the accents themselves (and not all of the accented characters) is sufficient. The configuration files of the a2ac program are independent of the PostScript font encoding as well as of the typesetting system encoding. The program may be used to prepare a font for any typesetting system, but only TEX was tested. The a2ac package is available on CTAN including the source in C and the documentation. It can serve as an alternative to the fontinst program by Alan Jeffrey. The program was tested on the operating systems SUN OS, Linux, and DOS.
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تاریخ انتشار 2011